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How It All Began

of Penelope Lively

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3.55 (7678 reviews)
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When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events.In this engaging, utterly absorbing and brilliantly told novel, Penelope Lively shows us how one random event can cause marriages to fracture and heal themselves, opportunities to appear and disappear, lovers who might never have met to find each other and entire lives to become irrevocably changed.Funny, humane, touching, sly and sympathetic, How It All Began is a brilliant sleight of hand from an author at the top of her game.

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Book Details

  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 229 pages
  • Publisher Viking
  • Publication Date January 5th 2012
  • First Publication 11/06/11
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780670023448
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Fiction
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